A Low Power Adaptive Mac Protocol for Infrastructure Wireless LANS

Authors:
Petros Nicopolitidis;Georgios I. Papadimitriou;T. D. Lagkas;Andreas S. Pomportsis
Affiliations:
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece;Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece;Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece;Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Venue:
ICNS '07 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Networking and Services
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This paper proposes a Low Power Adaptive Polling (LPOAP) MAC protocol for infrastructure Wireless LANs (WLANs) which is capable of operating efficiently under bursty traffic conditions. The protocol utilizes a Learning Automaton at the Access Point of the WLAN. The Automaton utilizes network feedback to select the mobile station that will be granted permission to transmit. We implement a low-power option via specifically utilizing a control packet of the proposed protocol to reduce its energy consumption in medium-to high network loads.